History Main / GreatBigBookOfEverything

** Actually, the noises are only made by the UnusualUserInterface uses by Al to query Ziggy. Ziggy actually talks in a pleasant female voice in the one episode where it is shown. Also, it only contains historical data since Sam's birth. This becomes a plot point in the same episode, when Sam and Al, who is older, switch places. It takes Ziggy a lot of time to download the missing data.

Compare with {{Library of Babel}} and TomesOfProphecyAndFate. Supertrope to BigBookOfWar. This trope is DoAnythingRobot in book form - and YOU do the Anything!

* NealStephenson's ''{{Cryptonomicon}}'' contains a book of the same name, which, although it's focus is limited to cryptography, seems to have a near-magical status to the Allied cryptographers.

This also appears in a lot of videogames, usually as a "guidebook" or similar phrase. It ''always'' has everything you need to know to get out of ''any'' situation the programmers threw in there that you could conceivably be stuck on, even if they sometimes appear to be riddles.

** Also playing a significant part in the first part of the series are the ''Naming Lights'' (AKA ''The Book of Night With Moon'', containing the true descriptions of everything in the universe in the wizard's language, created by the PowersThatBe) and ''The Book Which is Not Named'' (The Lone One's answer to the ''Naming Lights'', containing twisted descriptions of all that exists).

* In the Oz series, Glinda ([[{{Wicked}} not that Glinda]]) is in possession of a Red Book that contains real-time updates about things that are happening in the world. The entire world, not just Oz, which enables her to check up on Dorothy, Betsy, Trot, or any of the other semi-real-world characters who jump back and forth between Oz and America. She can look up what goes on with any of the characters at any time, and she uses it as an early-warning system and as a plot starter.

* HarryPotter: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Three words]]: ''Hogwarts: A History''.

** [[spoiler: This troper would like to point out that the book allowed Numbah Zero to start the Seventh Age of the Kids Next Door. Based on this statement, maybe someone else the first kid to start the fight against the adults]]

* This Troper was browsing a yard-sale one time, and happened on a hard bound book, old, large, and two inches thick, titled simply, "''The Book Of Knowledge'': Volume 1". It turned out to be a book for children, chock full of science experiments, fairy tales, history lessons, and crafts projects, written in the 1930s. Even for a humorously outdated kid's book, it looks very impressive on a shelf.
** Would [[http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2008/09/11/the-book-of-knowledge/ this]] be it? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Encyclopedia This]] could also be related.

* In, ChuckJones' 1942 ''MerrieMelodies'' short "TheDover Boys," villainous [[DatardlyWhiplash Dan Backslide]] consults a ''Handbook of Useful Information'' for "How Best to Remove Young Lady from Tree (Fig. 1)."

* In, ChuckJones' 1942 ''MerrieMelodies'' short "TheDover Boys," villainous [[DastardlyWhiplash Dan Backslide]] consults a ''Handbook of Useful Information'' for "How Best to Remove Young Lady from Tree (Fig. 1)."

* In, ChuckJones' 1942 ''LooneyTunes'' short "TheDover Boys," villainous [[DastardlyWhiplash Dan Backslide]] consults a ''Handbook of Useful Information'' for "How Best to Remove Young Lady from Tree (Fig. 1)."

* In, ChuckJones' 1942 ''LooneyTunes'' short ''The Dover Boys'', villainous [[DastardlyWhiplash Dan Backslide]] consults a ''Handbook of Useful Information'' for "How Best to Remove Young Lady from Tree (Fig. 1)."

** The book defends itself against anyone who isn't of the right alignment (good if the sisters are good). In the episodes where evil manages to steal the book, the sisters no longer have access to the book.

* In the Oz series, Glinda ([[Wicked not that Glinda]]) is in possession of a Red Book that contains real-time updates about things that are happening in the world. The entire world, not just Oz, which enables her to check up on Dorothy, Betsy, Trot, or any of the other semi-real-world characters who jump back and forth between Oz and America. She can look up what goes on with any of the characters at any time, and she uses it as an early-warning system and as a plot starter.

--> -- "The Great Big Book of Everything Song", ''{{Stanley}}''

* The Book of Secrets from the second ''NationalTreasure'' movie. Filled with almost everything a ConspiracyNut would love, and even more on top of that. Most importantly the information the team is currently looking for.

* With a twist: The ''{{Fire-us}}'' trilogy has the children, brains highly scrambled from the trauma of the virus, believing that a simple scrapbook is their Great Big Book of Everything, and that anything found in there will help them. The book's owner even forgets that she has ''pasted items inside it'' moments before, and claims that she has "found them" in the book.

* Also by Neal Stephenson, ''TheDiamondAge'' has ''The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'' which can teach martial arts, etiquette, computer programming and nanotech engineering. Probably a good few other useful things too. Not only does it contain seemingly all knowledge in the world, it can also get a extended knowledge and understanding of the readers current situation [[AppliedPhlebotinum and provides her with helpful advice and knowledge she'll need to handle dangerous situations]].

* HarryPotter: "Hogwarts: A History." seems to have everything the main character ever need to know. And if it's not in that one,it's in one of the more specialized Great Big Books Of Everything, like "One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi", which contains all the information Harry needs to succeed at the second task of the Triwiard Tournament.

**[[spoiler: This tropper would like to point out that the book allowed Numbah Zero to start the Seventh Age of the Kids Next Door. Based on this statement, maybe someone else the first kid to start the fight against the adults]]

* ♪Iiiiiiiiiittttttt's the great big book of everything, with everything inside / See the world around us, this book's a perfect guide♪ - In the Playhouse Disney show, ''{{Stanley}}''.

* ThisTroper was browsing a yard-sale one time, and happened on a hard bound book, old, large, and two inches thick, titled simply, "''The Book Of Knowledge'': Volume 1". It turned out to be a book for children, chock full of science experiments, fairy tales, history lessons, and crafts projects, written in the 1930s. Even for a humorously outdated kid's book, it looks very impressive on a shelf.

Compare with {{Library of Babel}} and TomesOfFateAndProphecy. Supertrope to BigBookOfWar. This trope is DoAnythingRobot in book form - and YOU do the Anything!

->''"Our friends need our help! Please turn to the time travel section of your Fireside Girls Handbook."''\\
-- '''Isabella Garcia-Shapiro''', ''PhineasAndFerb''

''This book's the perfect guide''\\
-- "The Great Big Book of Everything Song", ''{{Stanley}}''

Compare with {{Library of Babel}}. Supertrope to BigBookOfWar. This trope is DoAnythingRobot in book form - and YOU do the Anything!

Compare with {{Library of Babel}}. Supertrope to BigBookOfWar. This trope is DoAnythingRobot in book form- and YOU do the Anything!

* ''[=~The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy~=]'' fits the trope as a SciFi example. Though it partly subverts it as early in the first it becomes apparent some of the information is outdated and needs to be updated.
** And a lot of the other information is flat-out made up, but it's considered more fun to leave it that way.
** Or to put it another way, wherever it is inaccurate it is ''definitively'' inaccurate. It's always reality that's got it wrong.
** Also the Encyclopedia Galactica from the same series. While it's much more accurate and comprehensive, The Guide is still more popular as it is slightly cheaper and has the words "DON'T PANIC" on the cover in big, cheerful lettering.